So off to good start in Dutch chess tourney

ABS-CBN News

MANILA, Philippines -- The Philippines' top chess player, Grand Master (GM) Wesley So, had a good start to his campaign in the 76th Tata Steel Tournament Masters in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands.

The 20-year-old So defeated GM Richard Rapport of Hungary after 56 moves of Larsens Opening using the black pieces to join the gorup of opening day winners on Saturday in the round-robin tournament.

In other matches, second seeded GM Hikaru Nakamura of the United States subdued GM Arkadij Naiditsch of Germany after 65 moves of Nimzo-Indian defense, while third-seed GM Fabiano Caruana of Italy defeated fourth-seed GM Boris Gelfand of Israel after 30 moves of Sicilian Najdorf Variation.